Reference number: CH000962

How do I determine the IP address of another computer or website?

Question:

How do I determine the IP address of another computer or website?

Notice:

This document contains information about obtaining the IP address of another computer or website. If you're looking for information about how to obtain your own computers IP address see document CH000483.

Answer:

To determine the IP address of another computer or website you must either know the computer name or domain name and use the ping command to ping the computer and obtain its IP address. For example, in Microsoft Windows a user would open a MS-DOS command window and type "ping <computer>" where <computer> is the name of the computer or domain name.

In the below example we're pinging computerhope.com.

C:\>ping computerhope.com

Pinging computerhope.com [204.228.150.3] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 204.228.150.3: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=54
....

Ping statistics for 204.228.150.3:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 28ms, Maximum = 29ms, Average = 28ms

As can be seen in the above example the IP address 204.228.150.3 is the IP address of the computerhope.com domain.

Additional Information:

• Our dictionary ping definition contains additional information about ping as well as related documents and definitions.
• See our MS-DOS ping command page for additional information about the Windows and command line ping command.
• Additional information about the Linux / Unix ping command can be found on our Linux / Unix ping command page.